Chocolate Heart Layer Cake with Chocolate-Cinnamon Mousse Reviews

Look for the heart-shaped cake ring at cake and candy supply stores, or call Jane's Cakes and Chocolates at 800-262-7630. You can also use a buttered and floured 8-inch round cake pan with 2-inch-high sides.

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This cake IS a bitch. What's up with constantly moving the very light cake around? I wish it just said to put it on the rack to BEGIN with to save me the effort of a crumbling cake. I'd also like to mention I was in PATISSERIE SCHOOL. The icing is not enough to cover the entire cake, the mousse never whipped properly and I had to add more cream later, 4 cinnamon sticks is way too much and if you make the icing exactly, it seizes - use a ban-marie. The ONLY decent thing about the recipe is the light fluffy cake itself - the filling and icing can go. 2 forks for flavour, otherwise prep and mess alone would make it 0, if 0 were possible. Disspointed!

A big and beautiful hit!!! Did not have
cherry jam so subbed strawberry, which was
great! I took the
suggestions to cool the glaze a bit, but was
sorry. It did not spread smoothly. Next time
I will follow the directions. Simply divine!

The mousse and the glaze were quite tasty, but I agree with the others that the cake itself was not worth the effort. Unnecessarily complicated recipe that made a very thin cake in a 9 inch round pan. Everything else was spot on.

I haven't made this
recipe, but wanted
to share a tip on
the heart pan. If
you don't have one,
you can use 1 square
pan and 1 round pan
and create your own
heart. You will
have to double the
recipe, but
who doesn't love
extra cake? Just cut
your round cake in
half and turn your
square cake so it
looks like a
diamond. Then put
each half of the
round cake on
adjacent sides of
the square, and
there's your heart.

Exceptional recipe. Make sure to plan ahead for
the cinnamon cream! The glaze takes much more
than 30 minutes to cool enough to coat the cake. I
always end up doing multiple layers of glaze. It is
a hit every single time I make it and all my friends
request it for their birthdays. I prefer raspberry or
blackberry seedless jam with Chambord, instead of
the cherry.